W tej strefie proponujemy bardzo szeroką ofertę z dziedziny psychologii oraz dziedzin powiązanych: astronomii i astrofizyki, ekologii, filozofii, kultury, podróżnictwa, religii, socjologii, sztuki. Szczególnie polecamy z tej kategorii bestseller pt. Księga Urantii. Księga Urantii podaje jasną i zwięzłą integracją nauki, filozofii i religii. Ci, którzy ją czytali i zgłębiali, wierzą, że Księga Urantii może wnieść bardzo wiele wartości do religijnej i filozoficznej myśli ludzi tego świata.
Curious moments provides a public stage for private individuals from the first half of the 20th century. The press photographer tracks down the ideas and inventions, desires and fantasies, visions and illusions of an earlier generation. Here, the reader will certainly find old friends or distant relatives.
As the demand for work in illustration continues to grow, this medium is becoming a key component in the fields of advertising, communication, and reporting. Illusive, the definitive reference of contemporary illustration, showcases the work of both established names and new talents from around the world.
The book demonstrates the dynamism of this creative technique, documents global trends, and features an impressive variety of illustration styles and design approaches spanning from luscious fashion sketches to unapologetic protest images. Its scope makes Illusive a rich source of ideas for illustrators, painters, and all visual artists, as well as for graphic and editorial designers.
Whether as a complement to written content or a stand-alone attention getter, illustration is being used more and more often to set prominent accents. Illustrations have become a key component of advertising, communication, reporting, and other media. Because visual storytelling gets messages across more effectively in our age of information overload, illustration is gaining in importance. It’s no wonder that the current spectrum of creative expression represented by this technique is so vast. Illusive is the definitive reference of contemporary illustration and these developments.
Showcasing the work of more than 100 active illustrators —both established names and new talents —from around the world, the book demonstrates the dynamism of this creative technique and documents global trends.
This first full-career monograph, featuring two decades of iconic fashion and celebrity editorial photographs, reveals the enormous influence and impact that Richardson has made on contemporary style, culture, and photography. Since Terry Richardson first rose to prominence in the 1990s, he has shocked and intrigued the world with his singular view and signature style of bold lighting, hypersexualized styling, and striking, off-kilter glamour. From glossy, high-end fashion photographs to raw in-studio portraits, Richardson’s work has had an unmistakable impact on contemporary visual culture.
This much-anticipated monograph is the first to cover Richardson’s complete career to date. It chronicles more than twenty years of photographs, advertising campaigns, and editorial work, revealing the evolution of Richardson’s style, an unexpected mix of glamour and rawness. This two-volume set, which is separated into Richardson’s fashion photography and celebrity portraiture, features more than 600 photographs and includes early, rarely seen magazine work from now-defunct publications; iconic and influential work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Face, i-D, Vice, and Interview; advertising work for brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Chloé, and A.P.C.; and very intimate studio portraits. This compilation is an intriguing look at the mark Richardson’s work has made on fashion, photography, and pop culture, and it captures his edgy, provocative style in a book that is as unusual and unforgettable as the photographer himself.
Low-cost and mass-producible, stencil type is the world’s most universally used style, seen on everything from bridges to bags, from street signs to packaging. And because they are an affordable means of mass communication, stencils are often employed by populist, rebellious and street-art movements.
Hundreds of international examples, chosen from the late 19th century to the 20th, are brought together in a compact package that will provide endless inspiration for typographical ideas. Packed with examples from a broad range of locations and objects – construction hoardings, footlockers, wine barrels, shipping containers and so much more – Stencil Type represents a unique and highly curated choice based on decades of graphic-design experience and knowledge.
This is a companion to the cult typography volumes Scripts and Shadow Type, perennial favourites among designers looking for fresh and unexpected ideas in historical type.
Typeface combinations don’t always work together naturally. For an experienced designer, the process becomes largely intuitive, but even seasoned professionals sometimes struggle to come up with the perfect pairing.
Developed with typographers, graphic designers and font geeks in mind, Type Team gets to grips with the best techniques for combining typefaces from all classifications and styles for any project.
Almost 150 typeface combinations are grouped into 25 contrasting categories, ranging from Classical and Scholarly to Edgy and Vibrant, and with a full page devoted to each entry. In addition, 50 typographic principles are discussed and illustrated using appropriate typefaces.
In this unique reference for font spotters, designers, and users, the perfect typeface combination for any creative project can always be found.
Body art is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social and political. Today, in almost any major city worldwide, you will encounter tattoos, piercings, henna painting and elaborate hairstyles. In recent years, body art has proliferated in an unprecedented way, borrowing motifs and practices from many different traditions. What is it that new and borrowed body arts do, and what do they tell us about the global culture that we now inhabit?
Anthropologist and art historian Nicholas Thomas explores these questions and many more in this wide-ranging survey of body arts from prehistoric origins to the present.
He illuminates their role in expressing personal and cultural identity; their longstanding associations with ritual, theatricality, criminality and beauty; and their recent resurgence via the Modern Primitive movement and the work of contemporary artists such as Marc Quinn and Rebecca Belmore.
One of the most influential design philosophies of the past 25 years has been Glenn Murcutt’s dictum that buildings should ‘touch the earth lightly’. While architects have always sought to liberate architecture from its solid foundations through the use of new materials and spatial reconfigurations, climate change, new materials and restricted land use have given new impetus to finding lightweight solutions for our homes.
‘Superlight’ houses combine two strands of thinking: that lightweight buildings have less impact on their environments, and that this lightness (visually, materially, ecologically) can lead to more open living and greater communion with their surroundings.
Each of the 41 featured houses is shown through photographs, plans and lucid explanations. Residences that appear to float, ingenious constructions using local materials, innovative structures, inflatable spaces, high-tech hyper-intelligent houses: superlight takes many forms, in many places, from the urban jungle of Tokyo to rural China and mountainous Chile.
Illustration is no longer just illustration. Today, illustrators write and create children's picture books and graphic novels; they structure information through infographics; they design logos, fonts, and other typographical applications; they contribute to the editorial design of newspapers and magazines; they apply their talents to advertising and fashion; and they develop and produce their own products on the basis of their creations. Despite the fact that all of these activities are based on illustration, each of them has its own rules and its own specialists, tasks, and job descriptions to go along with them.
Against this background, A Life in Illustration gives an insider‘s look at the diverse facets of this creative medium through extensive portraits of today‘s leading illustrators. Perceptive texts and images describe the work and day-to-day activities of outstanding talents including Christoph Niemann, Andrea Ventura, Jan Van Der Veken, Peter Grundy, Jessica Hische, and the New York Times’s Jonathan Corum.
The Logo Design Toolbox includes over 900 templates for contemporary graphic and logo design that provide designers with practical groundwork for implementing their own ideas. This book not only depicts the most used, recurring elements, symbols, and motifs in all of their conceivable permutations, but makes them available as scalable and customizable vector files on a free included DVD.
Thanks to The Logo Design Toolbox, no one has to reinvent the wheel-or almost anything else for that matter. The book provides a variety of designs for items from wheels, sashes, laurel wreaths, and crowns to anchors, beards, and pirate skulls along with multiple renditions of letters, triangles, stars, ornaments, and speech bubbles. These can be used by amateurs and professionals alike as a time-saving basis for creating their own cards, flyers, posters, websites, presentations, logos, or T-shirts.
Classique introduces 777 of the most inspiring classical LP covers from its heyday,documenting groundbreaking art work and cover culture that is typical of itsepoch. In the same way that an attractive cover lures you into buying a record,Classique entices readers taking them on a journey through the magnificentevolution of record cover art. Ranging from romantic motifs, naturalism, abstractart, psychedelic and surreal experimentation to supernatural artwork and pureunadulterated kitsch, the diverse examples of classical cover design assembledin the book are immense.
Compiled by avid record collector Hort Scherg, the cover art featured in this bookis taken from his substantial collection and presented in fifteen chapters. Eachchapter is dedicated to the stylistic approaches significant to each decade fromthe 1950s to the 1980s, the variety and characteristic trends for countries suchas the US, England and Russia, the different musical genre
Dubbed the enfant terrible of fashion ever since his prêt-à-porter collections were first shown in 1976, Jean Paul Gaultier, whose avant-garde and bold fashions very early on reflected the issues facing contemporary society, is one of the leading designers in recent decades.
Published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Abrams in conjunction with the first-ever retrospective on Gaultier, this stunning hardcover book in a slipcase explores the ties between the designer and the pop/rock music scene, film, and dance, and sheds light on his sources of inspiration, which are as eclectic as they are impertinent.
The first major monograph on Gaultier brings together archival documents and over fifty interviews with Gaultier’s muses and colleagues, as well as the artists he has created costumes for: Pedro Almodóvar, Catherine Deneuve, Madonna, Helen Mirren, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Martin Margiela, Pierre Cardin, Dita Von Teese, Marion Cotillard, Kylie Minogue, Polly Mellen, and Tom Ford, to name just a few.
It features many previously unpublished illustrations thanks to the collaboration of renowned fashion photographers and the Maison Jean Paul Gaultier. The publication also includes two interviews with Gaultier, one by Florence Müller, art historian, and the other by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, as well as an interview with Valerie Steele, fashion historian and director of New York’s Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). An essay written by Suzy Menkes looks at Gaultier’s fashion shows and examines their visionary reflection of society’s evolution over the past thirty-five years.
Sublime is a comprehensive collection of current Japanese architecture, interiors, and products that showcases and explores the country’s uniquely elegant design aesthetic. After the visual excesses of the early new millennium, there is now a distinct demand for clear and rational, yet forward-thinking, design—a style in which the Japanese have specialized for hundreds of years. Today, architects and other creatives from Japan are masters at designing striking, virtually transcendent work that seamlessly melds aesthetics, functionality, and quality. With its opulent visuals and insightful texts by Andrej Kupetz and Shonquis Moreno, the book examines this distinctive talent for combining the rational and traditional with the cutting-edge in a way that seems effortless and even playful.
After the visual excesses of the first decade of the new millennium, there now appears to be a distinct demand for clear and rational, yet forward-thinking, design. Seamlessly melding aesthetics, functionality, and quality while simultaneously avoiding excess has been a foundation of Japanese handicraft for hundreds of years. Creatives from Japan are masters at skillfully combining rational functionality with a contemporary sense of design in a way that seems effortless and even playful. Sublime is a comprehensive collection of the relevant trends in Japanese design that reveals the country’s overall design aesthetic. The book presents architecture, interiors, and products that are created with an approach that is both rational and visionary. The results of this striking combination often appear futuristic and somehow transcendent. Japanese architecture is adept at bringing inner and outer areas of buildings together harmoniously. Even the smallest rooms can seem surprisingly spacious. Sublime explores the impact of the interplay between old-style handicraft and modern technology as well as traditional and high-tech materials on Japanese design. It features work by established names such as Naoto Fukasawa, Tokujin Yoshioka, Kengo Kuma, and Nendo, and introduces talent from a new generation that has found its own design style somewhere between a traditional Japanese approach and modern or post-modern influences. As the book clearly shows, a Japanese design philosophy based on local traditions has not only survived a general trend toward Westernization, but it is also being translated into outstanding examples of contemporary visual culture around the world.
Across all cultures, contemporary religious buildings are among the most stimulating and experimental in architecture. Although these structures do need to offer a certain amount of functionality, they also resonate with believers or visitors on an emotional level. Because they are called on to communicate higher purposes and meanings, these constructions can be much freer in their use of architecture, space, and light than other buildings.
Closer to God is a unique collection of international examples of sacred spaces of all denominations that were built in the last few years. Whether churches, synagogues, mosques, temple complexes, or other contemplative places for meditation and reflection, the architecture highlighted in this book ranks among the most exciting of our time.
Closer to God presents vivid proof that contemporary religious structures are no longer bound by predominant styles. Rather, the explicitly expressive architectural language of sacred spaces at the start of the twenty-first century is shaped equally by respect for established traditions and forays into the visuality of the future.
"We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be."
--Richard Avedon, 1974
The preeminent stars and artists of the performing arts from the second half of the 20th century offered their greatest gifts—and, sometimes, their inner lives—to Richard Avedon. More than 200 are portrayed in Performance, many in photographs that have been rarely or never seen before. Of course, the great stars light the way: Hepburn and Chaplin, Monroe and Garland, Brando and Sinatra. But here too are the actors and comedians, pop stars and divas, musicians and dancers, artists in all mediums with public lives that were essentially performances, who stand at the pinnacle of our cultural achievement.
Święta Bożego Narodzenia to magiczny czas! Spotkania z najbliższymi, prezenty, zapach choinki i… kolędy – oczywiście nasze polskie, bo te są najpiękniejsze!
Olga Bończyk, Alicja Majewska, Zbigniew Wodecki, Włodzimierz Korcz nagrali wyjątkowy album z tradycyjnymi polskimi kolędami oraz utworami autorskimi. Na płycie „… kolędują” znalazły się m.in. „Dzisiaj w Betlejem”, „Pójdźmy wszyscy do stajenki”, „Bracia patrzcie jeno”, „Lulajże Jezuniu”. Ponadto obok nich usłyszmy autorskie kompozycje Włodzimierza Korcza, do których teksty napisali wyśmienici twórcy tacy jak Wojciech Młynarski, Magda Czapińska, Wojciech Kejne, Ernest Bryll.
Radosne, pełne optymizmu, ale i z nutą refleksji melodie prezentuje to niepowtarzalne wydawnictwo. Album „… kolędują” sprawi, że świąteczny czas będzie jeszcze piękniejszy!
Pakiet zawiera:Zwierzaki świata. Część 1,Zwierzaki świata. Część 2,Zwierzaki świata. Część 3.Dlaczego słonie boją się myszy? Czy to prawda, że orangutany uwielbiają jeść najbardziej śmierdzące owoce świata, a mrówkojad ma 10 razy dłuższy język niż człowiek? Czy można oswoić hipopotama i razem z nim oglądać telewizję? Na te i inne pytania wasze dzieci znajdą odpowiedź w książce Martyny Wojciechowskiej pt. Zwierzęta świata. Wraz z autorką odbędą także podróż po najbardziej egzotycznych zakątkach świata i poznają historie piątki niesamowitych zwierzaków Happiego, Balgira, Carlito, Jessiki i Fusiego.Zwierzaki świata. Część 2 to nowi niesamowici bohaterowie i nowe fascynujące przygody. Tym razem będzie o mistrzu przetrwania, który żyje w najbardziej ekstremalnym miejscu na Ziemi. Dowiecie się, który zwierzak jest największym śpiochem i w ogóle nie ma czasu na zabawę, ponieważ musi spać. Dotrzecie w morskie głębiny, by ponurkować z najsympatyczniejszym morskim ssakiem, pojedziecie na wspaniałe safari, by poznać króla lwa wreszcie przemierzycie góry i doliny, by dostać się do kraju, w którym żyją kawie, a kto to jest? Będziecie zaskoczeni, gdy się dowiecie. Ale najpierw musicie przeczytać tę książkę.Zwierzaki świata. Część 3 to kolejna część bestsellerowej serii. Tym razem zapraszam Was w podróż przez bezkresne stepy Mongolii, żebyście poznali orlicę, która jest prawdziwą królową nieba. Zanurkujemy w szmaragdowych wodach Belize, gdzie mieszka krokodyl, który szuka przyjaciół. W Peru weźmiemy udział w wyborach miss kawii. A w delcie rzeki Okawango obejrzymy zachód słońca z pewną uroczą i zakochaną żyrafą J. Te opowieści bawią, uczą dbałości o naturę. Odkrywaj świat z National Geographic!Podobno ludzie, którzy kochają zwierzęta, są dobrzy. Dzięki tym opowiadaniom każdy z nas ma szansę stać się lepszym człowiekiem, ponieważ od tego zależy przyszłość Ziemi i losy zwierząt.
Gdybym miał się pokusić o samoocenę, powiedziałbym pewnie, że jestem genetyczną krzyżówką realisty z optymistą. Gołym okiem widzę, że jest źle. To nie znaczy jednak, że jest beznadziejnie. A skąd! Co zrobić, żeby było dobrze? To, o czym już na tych łamach pisałem. Co najmniej tyle czasu, ile poświęcamy na walkę ze złem, poświęcić na wspieranie dobra. Ile pomyj wylewamy na złych polityków, tyle miodu wylać na polityków (czy kandydatów) dobrych. Ile psioczenia na niemądrych hierarchów, tyle lajków (na różne sposoby wyrażanych) dla tych, którzy robią rzeczy dobre. Ile energii wydanej na krytykowanie wstrętnych mediów, tyle wspierania tych uczciwych i mądrych.
Chcemy lepszej Polski, lepszego Kościoła? Samo się, proszę Państwa, nie zrobi.
Teraz albo nigdy to wybór najciekawszych i zawsze aktualnych tekstów Szymona Hołowni publikowanych na łamach „Tygodnika Powszechnego” w latach 2017–2019. Autor podejmuje w nich najważniejsze tematy dotyczące społeczeństwa, Kościoła, świata.
Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.
Każdego dnia, nawet w każdej jego sekundzie, w jakimś miejscu na świecie odprawiana jest Msza Święta, w czasie której Jezus w sposób bezkrwawy ofiarowuje się za nas Ojcu. Co jakiś czas Pan Jezus daje nam jednak szczególne znaki – cuda eucharystyczne – do których dochodzi w różnych częściach świata. Czyni to, aby zachęcić nas do głębszego udziału w Eucharystii i pokładania w Nim wszelkiej nadziei. W historii odnotowano takich cudownych wydarzeń ponad 130.
O cudach eucharystycznych można pisać wiele. My w naszej książce opisujemy ich kilkadziesiąt. Jednocześnie przypominamy wszystkim wierzącym za kard. Tarcisio Bertone, że „cuda nie są wydarzeniami mającymi dawać wiarę, ale dopełniać ją, kiedy istnieje i jest żywa. Mają też ją rozbudzić i pomnożyć, kiedy jej brakuje lub kiedy jest słaba”.
Album wpisuje się w ogłoszony trzyletni program duszpasterski Eucharystia daje życie.
Oto zaproszenie do włączenia się w modlitewne uwielbienie Najświętszego Sakramentu w formie dziesięciu adoracji będących pomocą w trudnej sztuce trwania przy obecnym ciałem wśród nas Chrystusie. Poszczególne spotkania z Jezusem dotykają różnych tematów, które staramy się podjąć w rozmowie ze Zbawicielem obecnym w Hostii. Każdą modlitwę poprzedzają słowa św. Jana Pawła II. Są one jakby myślą przewodnią adoracji, skłaniającą jednocześnie do własnej refleksji i samodzielnej modlitwy.
„Książki. Magazyn do czytania” to czasopismo dla miłośników literatury i wszystkich, którzy chcą wiedzieć, co się czyta. Na magazyn składają się m.in. wywiady, analizy, fragmenty nowych książek i przegląd 50 książek, które aktualnie czyta się na świecie. „Książki. Magazyn do czytania” jest mocnym dowodem na to, że o książkach można pisać i rozmawiać równie emocjonująco, interesująco, błyskotliwie i głęboko jak o życiu.
Na początku był problem - Polacy czytają coraz mniej. Kolejne badania pokazywały apokaliptyczny obraz Polski nieczytającej. Naszą odpowiedzią na ten stan była promująca czytelnictwo akcja „Czytamy w Polsce” oraz „Książki. Magazyn do czytania”, który stał się jej emanacją. Pierwszy numer naszego kwartalnika, z Januszem Korczakiem na okładce, ukazał się 14 czerwca 2011 roku. Chcieliśmy pokazać, że o książkach można pisać i mądrze, i wciągająco. Ale przede wszystkim różnorodność światów, które mieszczą się między okładkami.
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